Pocket.



J. M. KAISER.

POCKET. APPLICATION rum) mm 29, 11'1.

Patented JanvQ, 1912.

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Application med June 2 1911' swarm. eaeo'za To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, Josnr rr KAISER, /a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pocket-s, of which the follow .ing is a speclfi catlon; 1

My invention relates to an improvement in the"oonstruct1on ofpockets for use on wearing-apparel of the kind that isfre-.

quently subjected to laundrying and to which such pockets, made of similar material, or washgoods, are "permanently attached, for confining stiffening-stays at their ends, and require, therefore, to be laundried with the apparel. Pockets of the kind referred to are used on corset 'aists, collars of flimsy material, and analogous Wearing ap;

womens collars, oflace or other soft ma- -"terial, to be sewed thereto near the upper and lower edges and form pairs, at intervals, to releasably confine the ,stiifening 'supporters at their ends.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a view in elevation illustrating a portion of a collarwith a pair of my improved pockets secured thereon in proper relative. position and releasably confining a supporter at its ends; Fig. 2 is a plan View of the blank out of which the pocket is made by folding and stitching, and showing the transverse folding lines by dotted representation; Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the manner of folding the blank to form the pocket: Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the com;

the same.

To render a pocket suitable in every pan ticular for my purpose, its open end, if sealed, as it is liable to be by the pocket becoming stuck together in laundrying the article of wearing-apparel provided with it. must be readily susceptible to separation of the coheringportions; it must be devoid of loose in folded' end-sections liable to be pulled out and present raw edges, as by withdrawing a supporter-end from confinement in the pocket; and it must be reinforced against ripping at the corners of the Specification of Letters Patent.

'15 These pockets, in desired number, are per i manently secured, as by stitching across the Patented Jan.9, 1912;

open end of the poelret. My improved con struction affords to the pocket'the'se several desirable attributes ina high degree. 0

The blank ,6 froln which the pocket 7 is '60 made is a continuous cloth strip of: proper length and width. 1 preferably use tapeas the cloth; The strip is folded upon itself at the line 8. to form the in-turned'flap 8, with a tongue-section 9 provided onLit s-end, by.

turning it, at the line 9, ,i'n the direction op posite that of folding the flap. 8; another in turned flap is producedby folding the blank: at the line 10 to overlap the tongue 9 and cause the line 9 and inner end of the flap 10 to register with the folding line at 11., where the blank is finally folded from the condition in which it is shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Figs. 4 andefi. In the last named, completely folded 'conditionof the blank it is stitched along its edge-portions, as represented. at 12, 12, to complete the pocket. The pocketis thus made of double thickness; and its inner or baclr section 13,

carrying the flap 10, being longer than its outer section 14 carrying the flap 8, as shown, forms, to project beyond the section 14, a lip for the purpose hereinafter explained.

opposite ends at 16 and 17 (Fig. 1), to a col,-

bers of which are opposite each other .to receive and releasably 'confine the ends of a supporter 19 of any suitable variety. The supporter represented in Fig. 1 is a sinuously-bent length of wire terminating at its ends in eyes and covered with a close windin; of suitable thread, being the supporter shown in Letters Patent No. 998,249, granted to me July 18,-19liybut the pockets are eouallv desirable for use with them of whalebone, celluloid, and other forms in which such flexible supporters are quite commanly used in the-manner described.

My improved construction of pocket, by

forming it of a single length of tape, or the like. and making it of double thickness, renders it very strong and durable; the stitching 152. by continuing it beyond the inxertion-end of the outer section 14- reinforces,

' against ripping. the corner-sat 20. 20, Where the Docket is sub} ected. in use. to the greatest sewed along their edges by the stitching at 12, 12, are secured against accidental wit -lar 18. or the like, to form pairs, the mem- I strains; the mutually-lapping flaps 8 and 10.

'ter of separating them to permit the inserdrawal and consequent presentation of their inner raw edges by withdrawing from a pocket the end of a supporter 19 confined 1' therein, the tendency to such withdrawal being further resisted by the interlocking of the inner end of the flap 10 and the tongue 9; and in the event of the section l l becomin glued to the section 13, by starch in laund rying a collar 18, or other article provided with the pocket, the lip 15 affords a purchase to the supporter in inserting an end thereof into the pocket and better adapts that end to force its way between the cohering edges and thereby effect the desired) separation of the parts, whereas if the sections" 13 and 14 were of corresponding length, caus ingtheir ends at the pocketopening to register with each other, the mattion Would he attended With considerable;

- difiiculty. and be liable to damage the pocket. i

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1 Y A pocket of the character described adapted to receive the endportion only of a stay, comprising a continuous strip of ma: terial folded lengthwise to provide a backportion of multiple layers and a front-portion of multiple layers, the back-portion eX- tending a short distance beyond the frontportion to fdrm a guiding lip, the ends of the strip overlapping at the bottom of the pocketto reinforce the latter and to hold the innerlayers of the material in place, the

foldedsections and said guiding 'lip extension being stitched along their side edges, for the purpose set forth.

I, I JOSEPH MQKAISERQ In the presence o i .L G; ANDERSON, R. A. SCHAEFER. 

